1944
There's nothing retiring about retired Harry Grieger; he and wife Virginia not only jog and bike a thousand miles a day, they've just taken on the handy little project of designing and all but building a new house on 50 recently purchased acres just north of Norwich, Vt. They already live in one house in Norwich, Vt., but want a little more space for raising sheep, goats, dogs, cats, trees, vegetables, whatever, and thus the new undertaking.
We caught a handsome photo of smiling Monty "Bunny" Sayce in the papers, and smile he might. New England College has been awarded $450,000 to expand its Arundel campus in England and Bunny, a professor of government at New England, just happens to be director of Arundel.
It won't surprise you to learn that orthodontist Del Jackson, who says "Rinse, please" out of Wellesley, Mass., has received the highest honor conferred by the Tufts University Alumni Association for outstanding service to Tufts. Del graduated from Tufts in 1952, and he teaches there in addition to his private practice.
Not surprising, either, is word from Milwaukee that Ernie Rice, chairman of the executive committee of Lowei & Co. (investment banking), has been elected chairman of the district eight committee of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). For the benefit of all you philosophy majors out there, NASD, based in Washington, D.C., is a self-regulatory organization for the over-the-counter securities market, and the eight states in Ernie's domain are Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the two Dakotas. So there.
One happy result of these little notes: they recently brought Chuck Rendigs and EdFitzgerald together. Ed said that his company, International Hospitality Advisors, Inc., in New York, is trying to put together a Jersey shore project and he needed expert investment advice. Enter the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and my mention of Chuck. "So I called him," said Ed, "and we're having lunch together tomorrow at the Dartmouth Club." How about that?
No wonder Alex Bensinger's nickname is Buzz. He's a lawyer in Stroudsburg, Pa., county solicitor, member of the planning board for the new court house, a member of the group bringing a new Jonas Salk Institute to the area, part owner and operator of the Camelback Ski area nearby, and father-of-the-bride. The bride, last fall, being daughter Peggy '77, who married Brian McClosky '77, co-captain of last year's hockey team. "Appropriately," Buzz reports, "we had 44 voices singing 'Men of Dartmouth' at the wedding." It goes without saying that wife Jean buttresses Buzz in all of the aforementioned.
When we telephoned Ed Rehurek at Mutual of Omaha, there he was right there at Mutual of Omaha. "Same job for 25 years," he said. "Things don't change much around here. We still use worms for trout fishing." And they work, too, as I hear it. The Rehurek's four boys are all up and away: one a professor in Nebraska and a second a lawyer, and two are carpentering in Colorado. Ed and wife Beverly travel when they can, the Orient last summer and Russia the year before that.
Dartmouth hockey had a nice '44 touch this winter. Several touches, in fact, in the form of '44 sons playing against one another, with their parents rooted and rooting in the stands. Ireneand Hank Hughes were in Hanover a number of times to take in Dennis '79 performing as defenseman for the Green; and that brought them together with Maureen and Jack Riley, who came to town to watch son Rob co-captain Boston College on the ice; or with Gene andHorace Blood, whose son Bobbie wore flashy skates for the University of New Hampshire. B. C. and UNH both made the playoffs; alas, Dartmouth didn't.
Shirley and Rog Feldman kindly sent us from Martha's Vineyard a copy of the program of the Michael H. Feldman Memorial Trust, set up three years ago in honor and memory of their son Mike '71, who died in 1975. The trust sponsors a "Law Day" at the Cambridge School in Weston, Mass., and this year participants included the dean at Harvard Law School, a former ambassador to Nigeria, and former U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy.
Briefly: Nice talking to Phil Penberthy, Connecticut cigar czar, who became a grandfather for the first time last fall. Nice seeing Mark Peisch, N.Y. Medical College dean, in town to visit his father and mother. Which sets me to thinking: how many '44s still have both parents living? Not many, I reckon. Write me if you do; ought to make a good column.
Happy April flowers. That's it. Blessings.
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